Inner-tube carrier



J. M. MJ'LLS.

INNER TUBE CARRIER.

APPLICATION mm lmrla, 1920.

1,371,045, Paten'wd Mar. 8, 1921.

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INNERTUBE CARRIER- APPLICATION FILED lune. 1920.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

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JAMES MARSHALL ZVIILLS, OF HELENA, MONTANA.

INN ER-TUBE CARRIE-R.

Application filed May 18,

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that 1. JAMES M. MILLs, a citizen or the United States, and resident of Helena, in the county of Lewis and Clark, State of Montana. have invented a new and Improved Inner-Tube Carrier, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

It is well appreciated that chafing has a very detrimental efiect upon rubber. Deterioration also takes place upon tires and inner tubes being subjected to light.

in view of the foregoing, it has been customary to told an inner tube when the same yas not caried in a shoe, care being taken to expel all of the air from the same so that the tube is carried in a deflated condition.

To overcome the action of light, and to further eliminate the danger or" chafing, the tubes have been placed in boxes or other receptacles.

It is well appreciated by the average motorist that little or no space is provided for the boxes inclosing the inner tubes. These have usually been placed in the tool box.

Due to vibration, the boxes, which are usually of cardboard have quickly become worn by the tools rubbing against their sides subsequent to which the tubes have be come damaged by the implements carried by the tool box.

It is also ditlicult for the usual motorist to entirely expel all air from the tubes so that they are packed in a more or less bulky condition, occupying far more space than should be required for an object such as this.

With this in view, I have constructed a carrier which is particularly designed to house a plurality of inner tubes, and by means of which the tubes may be deflated upon being inserted into the same, although my carrier might be utilized for a number of different purposes.

Reference is had to the attached sheets of drawings which illustrate one practical embodiment of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side view along the lines 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a sectional end view taken along the lines 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the carrier in open position taken along the lines 3-3 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4: is an enlarged sectional view taken along the lines 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Mar. 8, 1921.

192a. Serial No. 382,217.

Fig. 5 is a sectional front view taken along the lines 5 5 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 6 illustrates a detail of certain parts 1 the construction employed in connection with my carrier.

in these views the reference numeral 10 indicates a housing suitably subdivided into a plurality of compartments, by any number of desired partitions 11. The front face of the housing is formed with openings 12 corresponding in number to the compartments provided, and this face of the housmg is conveniently inclosed by any suitable type of lid 13.

The housing and lid may be made of any suitable material, but 1 preferably employ sheet metal, which will withstand the hard usage to which the housing is necessarily subjected. An axle 14 is rotatably mounted within each oi the compartments of the housing, and secured to the axle and extending within the housing is a drum, including a core 15, and side walls 16.

One end of each of the axles l l is conveniently formed with a socket 17 adapted to receive the end 18 of any suitable type of crank 19.

It is to be noted that when the crank 19 is disengaged from the axle which it serves to rotate, that the same may conveniently be positioned within the lid 13 of the housing. it being carried therein by suitable brackets such as 20.

Within the housing 10 and adjacent the openings 12 of the compartments, rollers such as 21 are rotatably mounted. Each of the rollers 21 has cooperating with it a scc- 0nd roller 22, which is both rotatably and slidably mounted within the compartment this latter movement being conveniently provided by virtue of the slots 23 formed in the side walls of the housing through which the pins 24 of these latter rollers project.

To now insure cooperating between the rollers 21 and 22, a spring such as 25 is provided, the ends of which cooperate, one with each of the rollers 22, it being noted that these rollers are conveniently positioned within each of their compartments, so that rollers 01 this type are positioned to one another in adjoining compartments so that a single pair of springs may conveniently serve to properly hold two of the rollers 22 in position.

To now provide for attachment between the inner tubes and drums, the latter conveniently have secured to them, a strip of flexible material such as canvas 26, which latter mount upon their outer end, a suitable engaging element of any desired type such as 27.

In operation it will now be appreciated that the engaging element extends normally to the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, and in this position it will be an extremely simple matter to remove the crank 19 and to extend the end 18 of the same into the socket 17 of the drum to be turned subsequent to which the end of the inner tube is associated with the engaging member 27.

In the usual manner, the valve guts are now removed from the stem of the tube 28 so that air may freely pass from within the tube through the stem thereof. A rotation of the crank 19 will now serve to draw the tube upon the drum in the manner indicated in Fig. 4, it being noted that all air will be expelled from the tube by virtue of the movable roller 22 cooperating with the rotatable roller 21 between which the two must necessarily pass.

Obviously numerous modlfications or structure might be resorted to without in the least departing from the scope of myclaims. 1

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1. A carrier, including a housing subdivided into compartments, drums rotatably mounted within said compartments, and pairs of rollers movable toward each other rotatably mounted within each of said compartments and being adapted to bear against opposite sides of the tubes upon their being coiled around the drum.

2. A carrier, including a housing subdivided into compartments, drums rotatably mounted within said compartments, a bodily immovable rotatably mounted roller positioned within each of said compartments,

and a slidably and rotatably mounted roller adapted to bear against the first named roller, the tube passing between said rollers upon the drum being rotated.

3. A carrier, including a housing subdivided into compartments, drums rotatably mounted within said compartments, a bodily immovable rotatably mounted roller posi tioned within each of said compartments, a slidably and rotatably mounted roller adapted to bear against the first named roller, the tube passing between said rollers upon the drum being rotated, and means for pressing said slidably mounted rollers toward the first named roller.

4. A carrier, including a housing subdivided into compartments, drums rotatably mounted within said compartments, a bodily immovable rotatably mounted roller positioned within each of said compartments, a slidably and rotatably mounted roller adapted to bear against the first named roller, the tube passing between said rollers upon the drum being rotated, and a spring cooperating with the slidable roller for pressing the same normally toward the first named roller.

5. A tire carrier, including a housing subdivided into a number of compartments, each of said compartments being provided with an opening in its forward face, drums positioned within said compartments, means for rotating said drums, a bodily immovable rotatable roller mounted in each of said compartments, a slidable and rotatable roller also positioned within each of said compartments, means causing said slidable roller to normally bear against the first named roller, a flexible strip of material for each of said drums, and having one of its ends secured thereto, and a tube engaging means secured to the opposite end of said strip of material, this end of the strip being adapted to normally extend between the said rollers.

JAMES MARSHALL MILLS. 

